The Greenwich Academy-Brunswick School Red Chair Players will perform the play "Dead Man's Cell Phone" in Scotland at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on July 28. Members of The Red Chair Players include: Back

The Other Woman (Jessie Vissicchio) tells Jean (Alyssa Hagerbrant) to pucker up during the Red Chair Players rehearsal of "Dead Man's Cell Phone."

The Other Woman (Jessie Vissicchio) tells Jean (Alyssa Hagerbrant) to pucker up during the Red Chair Players rehearsal of "Dead Man's Cell Phone."

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Fringe benefits: The Greenwich Academy-Brunswick School Red Chair Players to perform in Scotland

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The Greenwich Academy-Brunswick School Red Chair Players are headed to Scotland. The troupe, which recently performed a three-show preview of the play, "Dead Man's Cell Phone," to sold-out audiences in New York City, are bringing the work to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on July 28.

The Red Chair Players is made up of six actors and three crew members, ranging from freshmen to recent Greenwich Academy and Brunswick graduates

This marks the ninth summer the company of Red Chair Players will perform under the direction of Dawn Fuller Medhurst, Upper School Drama Instructor of Greenwich Academy.

Medhurst explains that her company of actors only participates every other year at the Fringe Festival. But over the years, she says, the Red Chair Players have twice been awarded Fringe First Awards for Excellence in Theater.

Medhurst says she starts reading plays a year in advance to come up with a suitable work for her performers. She then holds auditions the following January.

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This year's production, "Dead Man's Cell Phone," by playwright Sarah Ruhl, is a quirky comedy about a woman, a dead man and a cell phone.

The Greenwich-based players will present 11 performances of "Dead Man's Cell Phone" during their two-week stay at the festival, which features 2,542 shows, and which is what Medhurst dubs as "the largest art festival in the world."